How Not to Make a Human

Name: How Not to Make a Human
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3836708How Not to Make a Humanhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/how-not-to-make-a-human-9781452960029/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3226873/a1853ac4-04e7-45c3-bbee-f7269c45de41.jpg?v=638385060077070000399554MXNUniversity of Minnesota PressInStock/Ebooks/From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval textsMainstream medieval thought, like much of mainstream modern thought, habitually argued that because humans alone had language, reason, and immortal souls, all other life was simply theirs for the taking. But outside this scholarly consensus teemed a host of other ways to imagine the shared worlds of humans and nonhumans. How Not to Make a Human engages with these nonsystematic practices and thought to challenge both human particularity and the notion that agency, free will, and rationality are the defining characteristics of being human.Recuperating the Middle Ages as a lost opportunity for decentering humanity, Karl Steel provides a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of a wide range of medieval texts. Exploring such diverse topics as medieval pet keeping, stories of feral and isolated children, the ecological implications of funeral practices, and the bare life of oysters from a variety of disanthropic perspectives, Steel furnishes contemporary posthumanists with overlooked cultural models to challenge human and other supremacies at their roots.By collecting beliefs and practices outside the mainstream of medieval thought, How Not to Make a Human connects contemporary concerns with ecology, animal life, and rethinkings of what it means to be human to uncanny materials that emphasize matters of death, violence, edibility, and vulnerability....3773054How Not to Make a Human399554https://www.gandhi.com.mx/how-not-to-make-a-human-9781452960029/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3226873/a1853ac4-04e7-45c3-bbee-f7269c45de41.jpg?v=638385060077070000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20199781452960029_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9781452960029_From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval textsMainstream medieval thought, like much of mainstream modern thought, habitually argued that because humans alone had language, reason, and immortal souls, all other life was simply theirs for the taking. But outside this scholarly consensus teemed a host of other ways to imagine the shared worlds of humans and nonhumans. How Not to Make a Human engages with these nonsystematic practices and thought to challenge both human particularity and the notion that agency, free will, and rationality are the defining characteristics of being human.Recuperating the Middle Ages as a lost opportunity for decentering humanity, Karl Steel provides a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of a wide range of medieval texts. Exploring such diverse topics as medieval pet keeping, stories of feral and isolated children, the ecological implications of funeral practices, and the bare life of oysters from a variety of disanthropic perspectives, Steel furnishes contemporary posthumanists with overlooked cultural models to challenge human and other supremacies at their roots.By collecting beliefs and practices outside the mainstream of medieval thought, How Not to Make a Human connects contemporary concerns with ecology, animal life, and rethinkings of what it means to be human to uncanny materials that emphasize matters of death, violence, edibility, and vulnerability.(*_*)9781452960029_From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval textsMainstream medieval thought, like much of mainstream modern thought, habitually argued that because humans alone had language, reason, and immortal souls, all other life was simply theirs for the taking. But outside this scholarly consensus teemed a host of other ways to imagine the shared worlds of humans and nonhumans. How Not to Make a Human engages with these nonsystematic practices and thought to challenge both human particularity and the notion that agency, free will, and rationality are the defining characteristics of being human.Recuperating the Middle Ages as a lost opportunity for decentering humanity, Karl Steel provides a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of a wide range of medieval texts. Exploring such diverse topics as medieval pet keeping, stories of feral and isolated children, the ecological implications of funeral practices, and the bare life of oysters from a variety of disanthropic perspectives, Steel furnishes contemporary posthumanists with overlooked cultural models to challenge human and other supremacies at their roots.By collecting beliefs and practices outside the mainstream of medieval thought, How Not to Make a Human connects contemporary concerns with ecology, animal life, and rethinkings of what it means to be human to uncanny materials that emphasize matters of death, violence, edibility, and vulnerability....9781452960029_University of Minnesota Presslibro_electonico_396df83b-3864-32fa-9172-060d01bb2171_9781452960029;9781452960029_9781452960029Karl SteelInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/uminnesotapress-epub-629d2c9e-4f2c-469a-b2a2-2da94f621006.epub2019-12-24T00:00:00+00:00University of Minnesota Press